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Peter K. Manning holds the Elmer V. H. and Eileen M. Brooks Chair in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He has taught at Michigan State, MIT, Oxford, and the University of Michigan, and was a fellow of the National Institute of Justice, Balliol and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, the American Bar Foundation, the Rockefeller Villa (Bellagio), and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. Listed in Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World, he has been awarded many contracts and grants, the Bruce W. Smith and the O.W. Wilson Awards from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Michigan Sociological Association. The author and editor of some 20 books, including The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology and the Rationality of Crime Control New York: NYU Press 2008 (paper 2011), Democratic Policing in a Changing World, Paradigm Publishers 2010 (paper 2011), and Phenomenological Theories of Crime (with Michael W. Raphael) Oxford University Online Bibliographies, 2011. His research interests include the rationalizing and interplay of private and public policing, democratic policing, crime mapping and crime analysis, uses of information technology, and qualitative methods.

Professor Manning is currently researching the transformation of policing in Ireland since the Patten Report and is frequently in Belfast and Dublin in this connection.

Peter K. Manning, Semiotics and Fieldwork. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA, 1987. Selected for inclusion in online version for SAGE Research Methods On Line (October, 2009). This is a royalty producing publication.

Peter K. Manning, Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response. Cambridge, M.I.T.Press, 1988. “Special Recognition” in The Cooley Award Competition, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1990. Also available as paperback.

Practice-Oriented Research Fellow, Northeastern University, September 2003- August, 2004. This included a small research stipend and summer salary for a study of the impact of Co-op experience on transition to work among police officers.

Professional Associations

American Society of Criminology – International Committee 1986 – Division of Critical

Criminology, Elected Executive Counselor 1992 -1995

Program Committee, 1994, 2006

Awards Committee, 1994-95

American Sociological Association (member of sections on social theory, criminology and environmental sociology) Elected member of Executive Council, Criminology Section, 1979-1982, 1990-92 Organizer,Session on Phenomenology, 1976

Elected member, Publications Committee, 1981-1983

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 1991-

International Sociological Association (Research Committee on Deviance and Control)

Law and Society Association (from 1984-) Program Committee, 1989-1990

North Central Sociological Association

Section Head, Medical Sociology, 1967

Program Chair, 1970

Panel and Section Head, 1970; 1977

Program Committee, 1971-1972

Elected Member-at-Large, Executive Council, 1979-1981

Society for the Study of Social Problems (Environment and Technology, and Crime and Delinquency Sections)

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